Let's talk dark humour and wake this forum up

[Jilly]

Ha - we have to have an official start, or I forfeit. I'm already deep in 3 different books right now, I CANNOT START ANOTHER!!

[Jason]

GO!

[Jilly]

(I lose.)

[Jason]

I've been running around like mad for an hour and a half now, wish I had set rules about what this race was.

[Jilly]

If it's a race to the finish, and the finish is my couch, I WON FROM THE START.

[Jason]

no I won, I sat on it earlier whilst you slept, I was tired after giving you a haircut.

[Jilly]

DAMMIT. I knew I didn't shed that much on my own.

[Jason]

???? I didn't do anything with your shed.

[Jilly]

But you did leave my hair clippings EVERYWHERE!

[Jason]

they weren't just your clippings.

[Jilly]

ewwww

[Jilly]

Oooh! Thought of another good read: Snobs

Obviously depends on whether you like Fellowes's brand of snark, but I certainly did!

[Pawan]

Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy

Hi - I am new to the group and wanted to let the fellow members know that my novel "Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy" is a dark humor with office background. I will welcome any feedback on the novel!

warm regards
Pawan

[Jilly]

Hello?

Hellllloooooooooooooo...

Anyone feel particularly in need of some dark humor (or just dark spirits) after the holidays?

[Rupert]

I'm here! I'm here! *waves*

I think this forum is wheezing its last breaths :-(

[Jason]

I am here too, had awesome holidays, still a week off work too. woohooo

[Dan]

Oh my... I'm so happy I found this group! Dark humor is my favorite. Anyway, hello everyone!

@Jilly -- I don't know Nancy Mitford. I'll have to check her out!

[Jilly]

Rupert, I think you may be right! But I'm having trouble accepting it because other twisted minds are hard to come by...

@Dan-maybe we can breathe some life back into this place! And absolutely check out Nancy Mitford-she's a riot.

@Jason-well played, sir.

[Rupert]

Yeah, it's a shame. Glad to see your subscribed to Indie Revolution. Feel free to post anything dark and twisted over there.

Dan: also feel free to join Indie Revolution!

[Jilly]

I won't be able to help myself, Rupert -- I seep dark and twisted out my pores.

[Guy]

Rupert wrote: "I'm here! I'm here! *waves*

I think this forum is wheezing its last breaths :-("

You could be right Rupert.

[Guy]

Rupert wrote: "Yeah, it's a shame. Glad to see your subscribed to Indie Revolution. Feel free to post anything dark and twisted over there.

Dan: also feel free to join Indie Revolution!"

I just signed up to. Thanks for the invitation.

[Rupert]

You're welcome :-)

[Michael]

Here's a few of my favorite satires:
Joseph Heller's Catch-22, brilliant as a novel and the movie version.

Douglas Adam's HItchhikers Guide through the Galaxy five part trilogy.

Gary Shteyngart's fairly recent novel, Absurdistan

And I have to say, I sort of like my own new novel, Michael McGuerty's Wasteful Management, a satire mystery.

[Jason]

Richard wrote: "Anybody read Apathy and Other Small Victories, by Paul Neilan? Because that book is without a doubt the funniest I've ever read. I literally cried at points. Which is not a great look for public tr..."

Train or bus? It would be awesome if you were the driver. haha

[Greg]

Rupert wrote: "Okay - let's try to get this forum back up and running!

As this is the style I tend to write in, I'm up for discovering more dark humour no matter who's writing it. If it's dark; I'm interested.

..."

Glad to have found this forum (albeit a bit late). Thanks for your original post, Rupert.

I love dark humor. I read it. I write it. I live it. (Well, we ALL live it. I mean, what's funnier than being the only creatures fully conscious of their own imminent demise? Hilarious.)

For those looking for fantastic, smart fiction brimming with black humor, I highly recommend the following authors:

-Kurt Vonnegut
-Joseph Heller
-Chuck Palahniuk
-Bret Easton Ellis
-Vladimir Nabokov
-Craig Clevenger

And you MIGHT even want to check out my last two novels: 'The Exit Man' (which was optioned by HBO) and 'Sick to Death,' which just launched two weeks ago. (Craig Clevenger provided a back-cover testimonial for 'STD,' calling it "a tour de force dark comedy." Okay, personal plug over.

Hope to see more posts on this topic!

Best,

GL

[Rupert]

Blast from the past! This forum has gone the way of many GR forums and seems to be dead which is a shame.

I'll check out your books now.

[Greg]

Man, that IS a shame. Nothing like finding out your genre is dying two weeks after publishing a book in that genre. ; )

Thanks for responding -- and for bothering to Google (or Amazon) my titles.

Best,

GL

[Rupert]

I know, right? There was a fair few of us posting here about a year ago and then it just tapered out.

Anyway; I've added The Exit Man. HBO are reliably brilliant so will look forward to the day I get around to reading it.

Nice to meet you!

[Jason]

had exit man on my amazon wish list for a while, I'll buy it one day. :)

[Greg]

Thanks to both of you, Rupert and Jason. Just know that if Exit Man makes it to TV, I'll be jacking the price of the paperback to $150 and the Kindle edition to $49.99. ; )

Happy reading!

[Rupert]

Haha!

:-)

[Jason]

how much for a signed copy?

[Greg]

No extra charge -- you just have to cover postage. Or you can come stalk me if you want to save on shipping.

[Jason]

I may stalk, depends on how popular your TV series is....and how big a cameo I get.

[Greg]

Not sure if you want a cameo. According to my agent, all the celebs who make a cameo appearance will be killed by my protagonist. No, really.

All right guys, I need to get back to writing!

Thanks for playing.

-GL